Very cool
Newshub 2.0 is Here!
-Background is terrible
-Feels heavy and depressing
-Font looks broken somehow.
edit to merge post (done by moderator):
well its dark and grey and bold. something more colorfull and a modern font would be nice.
and btw. i have a background configured and its shiws up on every tab just not in the news. there is that strange psychidellic background
the background that you have set wont show on the news page due to how that page is set up and shows a webpage and it is not intergraded directly into the client.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock
@magge No the best approach as now my message has not context.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock
@Femboy Do you have tools (like Google Analytics I guess) to see any in- and out-going events for that page?
How many people actually look at the news hub each day/week and are reading stuff there?
Some thoughts on that news hub:
At the moment, it feels more like a dedicated page to promote random links, not a classic news section where I can read it like a newspaper and comment on it, which I would expect with such a name. It acts more like a starting/home page for people who have just installed FAF and do not know how to change the default tab to Play.
I know this is mostly because of the missing resources of a dedicated Volunteer for creating news, but nevertheless the limitation of 200 chars for the news content (=fancy link description) makes it not easy to write an actually interesting article.
IMHO People just shift directly into the forum, discord or popular YouTube channels for any recent news to read, and in the end they can even interact with it.
The value for the click is too little on that page, that someone would look frequently at the news hub - Even with all the great work that was spent on that design, with all the other channels it will always fall behind.
Maybe it needs a different approach, like a very big news article every season with current growing stats about FAF (played games, amount of registered players), news from the moderation team (how many processed reports, etc), any open position to fill, results of the seasons and tournaments. Mixed in with some hot YouTube stuff.
And in the meantime, there will be a pinned thread for the last big article in its own sub-forum where people can interact. I have seen similar stuff on Reddit for TV series where people talk after watching it. (like a Post-Episode Discussion, example: Post-News #32 Discussion in our case)
